East Longmeadow police charge 18-year-old David Condon, 15-year-old juvenile, with theft from health club locker

EAST LONGMEADOW – Surveillance video from the lobby of a North Main Street health club led to the arrest Sunday of an 18-year-old man and 15-year-old juvenile suspected of stealing a backpack from an unlocked locker.

Police Sgt. Patrick T. Manley said the incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. when the two suspects, one a member of the Century Fitness Club at 491 North Main St., allegedly took the backpack from the locker.

The owner of the backpack had stowed his clothes inside, along with car keys and an IPod belonging to a friend who was also working out at the club, Manley said.

The suspects took the backpack into the woods across the street, but not before the surveillance camera caught them leaving the club, backpack in hand, Manley said.

The suspects then dumped some of the items, including the clothes, in the woods, Manley said.

Police Officer Michael Ingalls by chance encountered the two suspects, shortly before the theft was reported, at the nearby Super Stop & Shop and briefly spoke with them, Manley said. They told him they had just been at the club, he said.

Ingalls, summoned to the club to take a report of the theft, viewed the video and recognized the two suspects that he had just spoken too, Manley said.

Police arrested the two suspects a short time later. The IPod, its headphones and the car keys have yet to be recovered, Manley said.

The juvenile and David Condon, 18, of 218 Maple St., were charged with larceny from a building, Manley said.